This week we tackled the ever
controversial topic of social media.
Almost everybody, no matter their profession seems to have an opinion on
its use in today’s culture. Obviously,
my main focus will be on how social media affects my ability to teach my
students. Unfortunately, regardless of
my opinion I can’t use social media in my classroom. Many of you may be wondering why. Well, the answer is because of the clientele
that I teach. All of my students are
behaviorally challenged, and a majority of them are adjudicated to a local
residential facility. Due to these
situations none of my students are able to carry cell phones. Even with this policy we still have a few issues
with cell phone use in class. Honestly,
I am kind of glad that I don’t have to deal with the cell phone issue a
lot. It just seems to be a whole lot more
hassle than it’s worth. Especially, with my students. I would really like to investigate some of
the closed sites like: Schoology, Edmodo, and Google Classroom to see if they would
allow me a lot of the same freedoms of social media without many of the outside
communication concerns.
Finally, we discussed a couple of
resource sharing tools: Pinterest and Symbaloo.
Now, to be honest I was so against Pinterest. I had the idea that it was just for "artsy craftsy" people. However, I have since softened my opinion of Pinterest and found it to
be a potentially valuable resource.
On the other hand, I am very
excited about Symbaloo. Symbaloo
is a website organizer. There are two
different sites for Symbaloo, one is
designed for educators. The links that I
have here are to the education version. At
first, I found it a little difficult to set up my first collection of websites,
but after I used it a while I got the hang of it. In Symbaloo
these collections are called “webmixes”.
Here is my first attempt at a Symbaloo
webmix.
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